Hylastes obscurus Chapuis, 1875

Beaver, R. A. & Liu, L. Y., 2010, An annotated synopsis of Taiwanese bark and ambrosia beetles, with new synonymy, new combinations and new records (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), Zootaxa 2602, pp. 1-47 : 14-15

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scientific name

Hylastes obscurus Chapuis
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39. Hylastes obscurus Chapuis View in CoL

Hylastes obscurus Chapuis, 1875: 197 View in CoL .

Distribution: From Scandinavia through Russia and Northern China to Japan, Korea and Taiwan. [2b]

Hosts: Various genera of Pinaceae ( Abies , Picea , Pinus ). The record from Prunus (Rosaceae) in Korea ( Choo & Woo 1985) seems doubtful.

Biology: The biology and gallery system is briefly described by Kurenzov (1941). It is one of the most abundant species attacking trees which are dying, damaged or fallen as a result of heavy snowfalls in Northeastern China ( Lou et al. 2006 as Hylastes plumbeus Blandford ).

Taxonomy: The species is listed by Wood and Bright (1992) under the name Hylastes plumbeus Blandford , with H. obscurus Chapuis 1875 nec Marsham 1802 as a synonym. Blandford (1894a) proposed the new name, Hylastes plumbeus , because of homonomy with Hylastes obscurus (Marsham) . However, Ips obscurus Marsham is now placed in the genus Hylastinus , and there is no homonymy. We follow Schedl (1967b) in considering H. plumbeus as a synonym of H. obscurus Chapuis.

Blandford, W. F. H. (1894 a) The rhynchophorous Coleoptera of Japan. Part III. Scolytidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1894, 53 - 141.

Chapuis, F. (1875) In: Chapuis, F. & Eichhoff, W. J. Scolytides recueillis au Japon par M. G. Lewis. Annales de la Societe entomologique de Belgique, 18, 195 - 204.

Choo, H. Y. & Woo, K. S. (1985) Taxonomic studies on the Platypodidae and Scolytidae (Coleoptera) from Korea. I. Platypodidae, Slolytoplatypinae [sic] and Scolytinae. Insecta Koreana, 5, 31 - 47.

Kurenzov, A. I. (1941) Bark-beetles of the Far East, USSR. Akad. Nauk, USSR, Moscow-Leningrad. 234 pp. (In Russian)

Lou, J., Zhang, T. L., Zhang, M. H. & Li, G. W. (2006) Occurrence and damage of bark beetles in Laotudingzi Nature Reserve. Forest Pest and Disease, 25, 32 - 35. (In Chinese)

Schedl, K. E. (1967 b) Zur Synonymie der Borkenkafer XVI. 242. Beitrag zur Morphologie und Systematik der Scolytoidea. Entomologisk Tidskrift, 88, 147 - 163.

Wood, S. L. & Bright, D. E. (1992) A catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera), Part 2: Taxonomic index. Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 13, 1 - 1553.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Hylastes

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Hylastes

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Pinopsida

Order

Pinales

Family

Pinaceae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Hylastes

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Hylastes